School-based prevention for ecstasy and related drugs (ERDs): Barriers and content development
NDARC Staff
Jan Copeland, Paul Dillon, Cath Finney Lamb and Annie Bleeker
Aims
Design and Method
Two cross sectional surveys and two qualitative investigations were conducted. The quantitative component aimed to obtain one hundred surveys from a convenience sample of secondary school teachers across Australia; and 500 surveys from a convenience sample of Australian school students.
This second component of the study used qualitative methods to collect information about teacher and student opinions and attitudes towards information provision and education about psychostimulants. A total of 66 interviews were conducted: 30 were group interviews or focus groups that contained between 2 and 10 members; the remaining 36 were semi-structured in-depth interviews with individual participants. A stratified purposive sampling strategy was employed to enable information to be collected from students, teachers and other stakeholders of drug education in schools. Five key groups of stakeholders were interviewed: health education teachers, generalist teachers, welfare and support service teachers, principals and drug education consultants.
Output
Funding
Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST)